Pressure Unemployed Graduates Face After NYSC

Being a graduate is one of the best feelings you’ll remember for a very long time.

You remember the Final Year Week, The departmental dinners, the Water Baptisms etc.

Fast forward months Later, You are off to serve your fatherland in an unknown state. Then you are back home after NYSC.

one month

Two months

Three Months.

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NO JOB!!

Pressure sets in. Here are the types of pressures unemployed graduates face during this period

1. Parental Pressure:

If you decide to go settle back at home, your parents will definitely be concerned about you.

They’ll advise you, ridicule you, pray for you and still be overly concerned about you.

Some
will force you to take a job you don’t love especially when you are the
eldest and have so many younger siblings and other responsibilities to
take care of.

2. Peer Pressure

Peer
pressure (or social pressure) is the direct influence on people by
peers, or an individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by
changing their attitudes, values, or behaviors to conform to those of
the influencing group or individual. – Wikipedia

You have lots of
friends and acquaintances. Some will oppress you with their new jobs,
cars, clothes, and gadgets. We all have that one friend that got a slot
in central bank or NNPC before graduation and you are wondering how you
are going to catch up with them.

They throw reunions and other
gatherings but you are afraid to attend because you don’t know how to
explain the fact that you are jobless.

Peer pressure can either
drive you to become better or can make you depressed and desperate. You
must learn to believe in yourself and take practical and necessary steps
to achieve your dreams.

3. Societal Pressure

Societal
pressures are expectations that affect the entire community, or
specific parts of it, like the pressure to get married and have
children.– Wikipedia

Societal pressures are not really as powerful as the other kinds.

In
order to avoid societal pressure, most graduates are forced to relocate
to another city. The female graduate is expected to be seen with a
serious fiancé and everyone is expecting a wedding date sooner or later.
For the male graduates, you are expected to land a big job, drive a car
and take up responsibilities immediately.

There are people in
your environment always asking and inquiring about what you are
currently doing. Most of them don’t even have a solution.

These
pressures are just there to urge you to become a better person and
achieve great success. Most people especially our friends and family do
have great intentions and care in one way or another but sometimes,
these pressures might not be helpful. You must not allow them to have a
negative impact on you.

Is there any type of pressure we did not consider? Tell us in the comment box below